From: "John Ehrman" <john.ehr...@comcast.net> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2017 4:34 PM
You could take an alternate view: anything with a sign is an expression. So, the decimal value of 2**32-1 could be treated as a self-defining term.
The same issue sometimes arises when people discuss the difference between X'FFFF' and 65535 -- if System/360 had been a 16-bit machine, would the maximum value of a decimal self-defining term be 32767?
Well, there was such a beast, but it wasn't called S/360, but System 4. The model 30 had the 16-bit instruction set, plus a DH (Divide Halfword). The System 4 was built under licence to RCA who built the RCA Spectra, a 360 look-alike. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
